Evening Star Newspaper, May 18, 1937, Page 21

Wash DELANO OPPOSES SLAUGHTER HOUSE BECAUSE OF ODOR Stockyards Are Inevitably Linked to Processing, He Declares. PARK BOARD HEAD CITES CITY’S RESTRICTED SIZE Civic-Minded Persons Should Lend King Bill Full Support, He Asserts. Although designated by the French name “abattoir,” the projected plant at Kenilworth avenue and Benning road will still be a slaughter house and smell unsweet, Frederic A. Delano, chairman of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, declared today, in response to a query as to his stand on the fight being waged against this and other so-called nuisance in- dustries. “Great emphasis is being laid on the fact that after the animals have been slaughtered, the process will be innocuous,” Delano declared. “That isn't the point. If you are going to have hogs and sheep and cattle kept in a pen until they are Killed, there is going to be a smell. No amount of slaughtering and rendering can avoid that. “This is really throwing dust in your eyes, when they tell you they have a French thing called an ‘abattoir.’ They can't separate the stockyards from the processing. “You and I can't keep a cow on our own private property here in the Dis- trict, but here you are going to have carloads of cattle kept here. City too Small For Plants. “I don't question that these are necessary, these slaughter .ouses, but we want to put them away from resi- dential areas. This city is not so big that we can assign part of it to such industries. It is now only two-thirds the size of the city the Constitution and George Washington wanted. We ought to be a little careful how we use that two-thirds. “Does Baltimore allow new stock- ington News 1 The Foen WASHINGTON, | NEW STUDY BEGUN ON LEAVE RULES Unintentional Inequities of Present System Cited to Officials. Administrative officers of the Gov- | ernment today undertook a new study | of the regulations governing leave, pre- paratory to recommending changes to President Roosevelt designed to iron | | and rules went into effect last July 1. At a meeting this morning at the out kinks that have developed since | HOUSE UNIT BEGINS JORDON CASE QUL Hearing Recessed Before Making Decision as to Probe of Conviction. After receiving testimony from two | witesses, the Palmisano subcommit- tee, charged with determining whether a congressional investigation of law enforcement in the District is war- ranted, recessed until noon tomorrow The subcommittee was supposed to make its reccommendation to the whole (4 ny Star WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, o spellbound. | BY BLAIR BOLLES. Nio Naitto is billed by Ringling Bros. as the “Oriental wizard of the wire.” The circus doesn’t mention the intricate interweaving of her "racial strains, which are almost as intriguing as her backward somersault on the taut steel wire. Miss Naitto's father was a Chinese opera singer. Her mother was a Pole | in a continental circus perch act. She married a German comedy dancer. ‘When the four want to talk ensemble, | they say it in Russian. Nio's actions are louder than words, TUESDAY, Through the “eye” of a motion is seen completing a back somersaul; tounds circus acrobats and holds circus fans all over the world —Star Staff Movies, Elwood Baker, Wire Marvel Is Chinese-Polish ! - Daughter With German Spouse MAY 18, 1937. icture camera, Nio Naitto < An “Oriental Wizard” Performs a Feat She Alone in All the World Can Do £ on a wire, a feat that as- CEREMONY SET AT GLENN DALE Acceptance of Building Re- opens Controversy Over Thirteenth Street Site. The Commissioners tomorrow will accept the main building of the Adult Tuberculosis Hospital at Glenn Dale, Md., just completed by the contractor, and this immediately will reveive the long contest over future use of the site of the old Tuberculosis Hospital at Thirteenth and Upshur streets. Nio, 25, is the only member of the troupe who gets a special announce- ment, but Ala has a cute trick of her own—a foreward somersault on the wire. Con Colleano, supposedly the world's greatest wire artist in history, is the only person who has tried this before. Right now Con is thrilling the Australians. The wires these wizards use are . mace in Italy. They are about as thick | as a cigarette and pretty durable, but | twice they have broken under the 1 [DEAS REQUESTED ON AUDITORIUN "Advisory Committee Would | Settle Questions of Site, Design and Uses. The Advisory Committee to the Auditorium Commission today invited suggestions from interested District ! persons and organizations pertaining to the location, design and uses of the projected auditorium for the Capital. In announcing this. officials declared the suggestions should be submitted in Society and General PAGE B—1 EXPANDED NAVAL HOSPITAL ON NEW SITE SEEN LIKELY Tour Impresses House Unit With Need for Larger, Better Facilities. NEW BUILDING SURE, SAYS ONE MEMBER Problem of War Expansion Held an Acute One in Present Location. Increasing indications that the Naval Hospital may be moved to another and larger site, where a great naval medical center would be constructed, were seen today as the House Naval Affairs Committee made a tour of inspection of the present institution at_Twenty-third and E streets. No decision has been reached by the committee, but it was apparent that the visit had impressed members With the crowded conditions, antiquate ed buildings and need for a larger site, particularly for war expansion. Some difference of opinion was ap= parent, as the committee inspected not only the buildings, but plans for the hospital which had been designed years ago to be rebuilt on the old site. The committee is considering new legislation to authorize construction of a larger medical center either on the present site or a new one. “No Question.” There is no question about a new hospital being built, according to a prominent member of the committee. The only question is whether it will be built on the old site or some other larger one elsewhere. In view of the fact that the proposed new War Department is to be cone structed on the east of the Naval Hos- | pital site and the proposed new Navy Department immediately to the west of the hospital site, it was apparent that the committee was impressed with the claim of the Navy that it needs & larger site, particularly for expansion in time of war. Rear Admiral Perceval S. Rossiter, surgeon general of the Navy, who cone ‘Na)tws. although not during a per- yards or new abattoirs, without special action of the Council, after public | hearing? Yet Baltimore is a far larger city than Washington and has no re- strictions in size such as we have here. | “Why is Senator Tydings proposing that we do something here that isn't | allowed in his own city of Baltimore? “I've already gotten behind the King bill and I feel that civic-minded persons here should lend it their full Civil Service Commission, which some | time ago called on the departments | and independent agencies for a report | on the manner in which the regula-i tions were working out, it was decided | to turn the questions which have de- | veloped over to the two committees | originally instrumental in devising these regulations. The Committee on Annual Leave is headed by Frank A. | District Committee tomorrow, but an- | other session was called wher it be came apparent all witnesses could nof oe heard today. The subcommittee was named to make the inquiry after John M. Holz- | worth, representing Thomas Jordon, convicted slayer, told the committee his client was “railroaded” to the death house. Jordon has since dismissed ducted the tour, pointed out to Chair= man Vinson and other members of the committee that even the present site would be further restricted in its new Three agencies have presented to writing at the earliest possible date, the Commissioners claims to the use addressed to “the chairman of the of the latter property. Advisory Committee, Capital Audi- The Board -of Public Welfare has | torium Commission, Room 1228, South i : asked that the building be converted Interior Building, Eighteenth and C ‘gl]:r‘xi:gg bi‘:ogl:g:sj:é ”-}en i into an obstetrical annex to Gallinger = Streets.” | : o Municipal Hospital: the Board of East Capitol Site Proposed. e ;,L‘d‘:,“fii;’,‘““g out by the admiral, Education has urged it be used as a | Among the sites under discussion, | o ed that the hospital buildings, site for a new Wilson Teachers’ Col- | it Was learned, are: At the end of S,KMS‘}; n‘edw construction on the old lege, and the Playground Department | East Capitol street, on the banks of | Si'6: Should not go farther south than however, even Russian words, whm‘mrmanc?, g he prances over the thin piece of | The girls began their professional teel stretched across the center ring | liVes a5 aerialists in a troupe organ- n the main tent at the Florida avenue | i7éd by their father, Yu Tchen Dian, and Fifth street northeast grounds, | WhO IS & ground assistant during the where the circus began a three-day 2Ct- He spends his spare time talk- stay yesterday, with performances 108 in »Chmese with other Chinese | each day at 2 pm. and 8 p.m. | artists with the circus. Before the slant-eyed mistress of | In Poland, Dian met Capitolina, balance tops off the Naitto's 13-minute | Who was working atop a *perch"—a support. “A program such as the King bill suggests has been talked of before. But 1t is hard to get interest aroused in a hypothetical case. It is only | when some one threatens to do some- thing that offends the public sense | that we can get somewhere. | “Citles discuss doing something | about inflammable houses. But it is only when a bad fire comes along and burns down half the city that there is really something done. We are in | e similar situation now.” Site Is Inspected. A tour of inspection of the proposed ! slaughter house at Benning and the | surrounding territory was made yes-{ terday afternoon by the members of ; the Senate subcommittee considering the King bill to restrict the develop- ment and operation of so-called unde- sirable industries in the National | Capital. The visit to the areas was made | known today by Senator McCarran, | Democrat, of Nevada, subcommittee | chairman. He was accompanied by the two other members, Senators Tyd- ings, Democrat, of Maryland and Austin, Republican, of Vermont. After viewing the slaughter house, which has been closed down for about | four years, the Senators talked to some | of the residents near the plant, Mc- Carran said. No conclusions were reached, he said, the purpose of the inspection being to provide information for the subcommittee members. The hearings, which started early last week, are scheduled to be resumed at 2 p.m. tomorrow in the District Committee yoom in the Capitol. The King bill is intended to curb | ‘the development of a list of other - dustries here, including chemical and exposive plants as well as slaughter houses. The hearings have dealt mainly with slaughter houses because of the proposal of Adolf Gobel, Inc., to open the Benning establishment. Banned Industries Listed. John Nolen, jr., director of plan- #ing of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, in scouting the idea that the King measure is aimed especially at the proposed slaughter house of Adolf Gobel Co., made pub- lic & list of some 30 so-called nuisance industries which are now banned here under regulations of the Zoning Com- mission promulgated last November 25. These are barred unless the appli- cant first secures approval of the Zoning Commission and a permit. A large number of these are being writ- ten into the King measure so there twill be no doubt about it, even if the ‘Zoning Commission should become a political body and fail to do its civic duty, Nolen explained. The King bill, he made clear, is not retroactive, but applies only to new industries, and ‘this is true of the zoning regulations. GAMING SUSPECT HELD $1,500 Bond Set—Case to Go to Grand Jury. Arrested along with 19 other per- #ons in a raid on the basement of a ‘building in the 1000 block of Sixth street last Friday night, Sylvester Wil- kinson, colored, of that address, waived a preliminary hearing and was held under $1,500 bond for the grand jury when arraigned before Umdited States Commissioner Needham C. ‘Turnage on a charge of setting up a gaming table. Detective R. F. Eagan and Deputy Marshals Clayton Gasque and Thomas Ott, who conducted the raid, said they found a well-equipped gambling establishment with a large dice game | themselves and as a result of the con- mon, chief clerk of the Agriculture Department. Dozens of problems that could not be anticipated when the regulations varying interpretations by the officers troller general's decisions, and there President should be asked to make changes to end unintentional in- equities. For example, it was pointed out to- day, employes classed as temporary who are paid only for the time they are on duty are deprived of leave by a decision of Acting Controller Gen- eral Elliott, when, as a matter of fact, their service is continuous. Under or- | dinary circumstances, a temporary | employe gets two and a half days | annual leave a month. Another case brought up was that | of employes ultimately retired for dis- | ability who have taken leave in excess | of that earned when they quit the service. If this excess leave is sick | leave, they are not required to re- imburse the Government. If it is| annual leave, they are required to | make it good. REPORT DEMANDED ON F. C. C. ACTION Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, yesterday introduced a reso- lution calling on the Federal Com- munications Commission to detail to the Senate its reasons for declining to.permit the Mackay Radio & Tele- graph Co. to extend its radiotelegraph service to Norway. The company last week filed with the Court of Appeals a protest over the commission’s action, charging the F. C. C. with sanctioning a monopoly by the Radio Corp. of America. R. C. A. Communications, Inc., now has exclusive radiotelegraph rights to Norway. Borah's resolution would compel the F. C. C. to send to the Senate all data relative to the Mackay company’s ap- plication and “any decision or written opinions touching the allowance or disallowance of said application.” The Senator also would have the commission “state the law and the facts upon which its decision or opin- lons were rendered.” A resolution asking for an inves- tigation of the commission already is pending in the House. Death Wins Fight With Grid Team as Hagan Girl Dies Death today won the battle for gold- en-haired Mary Ann Hagan, 5, for whose sake virtually the entire George ‘Washington University foot ball team hastened to Children's Hospital last week to offer their blood for transfu- sions, The child, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Foster Hagan of Arlington County, died at the hospital from pneumonia and a rare bloodstream infection, Mary Ann became known as the sweetheart of the G. W. foot ball team at barbecue parties given annually by her father, a Virginia attorney and former newspaper man. Two years ago, she became his “official hostess” at the parties. When news of her illness reached the university last week, the foot ball progress. Most of the occupant rged with disorderly conduct, foi feited $10 collateral. players hastened to the hospital. The child rallied after receiving bl Birgfeld, chief clerk of the Treasury, | and that on sick leave by P. L. Glad- | were formulated have resulted out of | are instances, officers think, where the | Holzworth as his attorney. The lawyer also made serious charges against the Police Department and the | district attorney’s office. It was ex- inquiry. Court Rejects Plea. While the subcommittee was sit- ting the United States Court of Ap- peals turned down a petition filed by Holzworth asking for a review of new evidence in the Jordon case. Action of the court was interpreted as ending all proceedings before it concerning Jordon. Meeting in executive session, Chair- man Palmisano called Israel F. Good, & member of the jury that convicted Jordon, as the first witness. ‘When Good left the hearing room, he refused to discuss his testimony, explaining Palmisano had asked him not to talk to newspaper reporters. It was known, however, that Good first-degree murder, believing a second- degree verdict would have been proper. Good has said other members of the jury, apparently misunderstanding the instructions of the trial judge, insisted a second-degree verdict could not be finally voted for the first-degree find- ing. Good said the jury foreman, in an effort to demonstrate that a second- degree verdict was not proper, sent out for and obtained an obsolete Dis- trict code supporting his contention. Good also declared he made a deter- mined effort in the jury room to ob- tain additional instruction from the trial judge, but was unsuccessful. Holzworth to Go Back. subcommittee after Good left and had completed about half his testimony when the subcommittee adjourned. He will resume the stand tomorrow, and may be followed by F. A. Schnei- der, 1353 Iris street, an eye witness of the shooting of Mrs. Lizzie S. Jaynes in the Garden-T Shoppe, for which Jordon was convicted. Although Schneider, who was in the T-Shoppe with some friends at the time, said he saw the unmasked slayer from a distance of about 10 feet, he was not called as a witness in an ef- fort to identify Jordon. The Appeals Court rejected Holz- worth's petition in a memorandum clarifying its decision of a week ago on & somewhat similar action in=- stituted by Harry T. Whelan, still Jordon’s attorney! The court said today that in its ruling on Whelan's petition it did not mention Holzworth’s because Jordon had filed with the clerk a letter saying he had discharged Holzworth. “The serious nature of the matters involved, however,” the court stated today, “impel us now to say that we duly considered the April 30 petition (Holzworth’s petition) and the affi- davits filed in support of it prior to our former decision, and reached the conclusion, to which we now adhere, that we are without jurisdiction to grant the relief asked.” The court also had entered on its records Jordon's letter discharging Holzworth. BAZAAR PLANS LAID Plans are nearing completion for a bazaar and country store to be held at 7:30 p.m. tomorow at the Congre- gation B'nai Israel, Fourteenth and Emerson streets, it was announced today. Carnival decorations, barkers, side- show men, whip crackers and country maids will feature the occasion. Samuel Gold is chairman in charge of entertainment and Leo Garner transfusions, but over the week pneumonia developed. chairman of the Arrange: Com- mittee, pected these charges would form the | principal basis of the subcommittee's | opposed the conviction of Jordon for | returned, with the result that he | Holzworth was called before the | performance with her backward somer- sault, she has the customers holding their collective breath at such nifty antics as these: Her 16-year-old sister, Ala, stands on her head, and Nio mounts the ladder, walks across the wire (10 feet above the ground) and down the lad- der. | she repeats this performance with | Ala doing a handstand resting on | Nio's upstretched hands. Ala stands on Nio's head with one ‘!ool. the other leg pointed up past | her head. After Nio has carried her | sister to the center of the wire, Nio | puts her own left foot up past her head, resting on her right. | tall pole held by a strong man. The | families merged and went in for wire work. About seven years ago they met Al Neuberger, a German, who | { became their manager and later mar- ! ried 14\ | The Naittos astounded European | audiences from England to the Urals | until two years ago, when Pat Valdo, | Ringling scout, saw them in action. He signed them up for “the world's | greatest show,” and this is their sec- ond season in America, Ringling, says Neuberger, is to circus performers what the Metropolitan is to | opera singers. When you make Amer- |ica’s biggest big top, you know you're | good. | DAYLIGHT SAVINGS ACTION DEFERRED Sacks, Suprised by Oppo- sition, to Seek Strength of Sentiment. Surprised by a sudden avalanche of opposition to his bill to put Washing- ton on a daylight saving schedule, Representative Sacks, Democrat, of Pennsylvania, announced today he would make no effort to seek its ap- proval by the House District Commit- tee for at least another week. In the meantime, Sacks wants every person interested in the measure to express his or her views in the form of written statements or petitions, which will be considered by the sub- committee appointed by the District Committee to sound out public senti~ ment on the plan. Sacks is chairman of this subcommittee. To Respect Majority Wishes. Sacks, personally, said he has no de- sire to “inflict” daylight saving on ‘Washington unless the majority of its residents want it. “I will be guided entirely by the wishes of the people,” he declared. Until the public hearing yesterday, Sacks said he had no idea there was so much opposition to the daylight saving plan. Petitions and letters submitted in advance of the hearing, he pointed out, indicated there was a ratio of about 5 to 1 in favor of the extra hour of daylight. Opponents Active. Opponents of daylight saving, how- ever, came out in full force at the hearing, while the advocates obviously stayed at home. Only a few of more than a score of witnesses indorsed Sacks’ bill. Sacks does not plan to hold another hearing on his measure, but he be- lieves another week will give public sentiment sufficient time to crystallize. The subcommittee probably will hold an executive session early next week to examine the daylight saving correspondence and map its future course. The results of its study will be reported to the full committee May 26. $800 FOX SCARF FOUND ‘The disappearance of an $800 silver fox scarf from the downtown hotel room of Miss Ann Corio, strip tease artist, who played at the Gayety The- ater last week, was short lived. While Miss Corio had gone on to Toronto, Canada, for an engagement, Detective Sergts. Mike Dowd and Leo Murray staged a rapid clean-up of the case. They recovered the scarf, de- posited it in the safe at dquarters and arrested & hotel bellbfily, who was held for investigation. SULCESSORSET P FORFIDELITY O {First Federal Savings to! Acquire Assets After Court Hearing. Loan Association of Washington for- mally established late yesterday, plans moved forward today toward its eventual purchase of all assets of the closed Fidelity Building and Loan Association from the receiver now in charge, so as to make available to shareholders 85 per cent of their funds. Final formalities were completed for the First Federal when a certifi- cate was issued for membership of the new institution in the Federal Home Loan Bank of Winston-Salem, N. C. This makes the new First Federal a member of the Home Loan Bank System, so that it may borrow from the bank of Winston-Salem on its assets and may have the Home Ownerrs’ Loan Corp. invest in its shares, if such investment is found necessary to meet the building and loan business need here. ~The new First Federal also was is- sued a certificate of insurance by the Federal Savings and Loan In- surance Corp. This insures each account in the new institution up to $5,000. Meantime, while the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and its affiliated agencies had been completing the establishment of the new institution here, the receiver at the Fidelity has been busy preparing a schedule of assets on the basis of which these assets are to be so0ld to the new Fed- eral by approval of the court. Many details remain to be worked out by the receiver, under direction of the controller of the currecy, in estab- lishing & minutely accurate and com- prehensive record for the court of each shareholder’s account and each loan. Shareholders are to be invited to inspect the books later at the receiver's office to check the accuracy of the schedule. The new institution formally is to call upon the controller of the cur- rency to sell the assets, and the mat- ter then will go before the court with the detailed schedule of assets for court approval. The court is ex- pected to set a date for a hearing on the proposed sale. How long the remaining procedure will take before the doors of the new First Federal open cannot be ac- curately estimated. But all officials concerned were working today toward as early a date as le. The big- gest job still remaining& completion of the schedule. | reached no decision, has proposed use of the land for a new recreation center. City Heads to Decide Soon. Engineer Comissioner Dan 1. Sul- tan said the Commissioners had but probably would soon. The adult hospital at Glenn Dale | Was authorized in the District P, W. A. | the Anacostia River; a location in | the Mall, probably on the south side, opposite the Mellon Art Gallery, which is to be situated at Sixth street and Constitution avenue; the old reservoir, at Sixteenth and Kennedy street the municipal center property, at | John Marshall place and Pennsyl- vania avenue, and others. The Advisory Committee, headed the “brow of the hill,” near the south front of the present main building of the hospital. Already, there are seve eral buildings to the south of it which would mean a loss of hospital area for a new building on the old site. Group Impressed. The committee was so impressed | With a mere glance at the old teme porary war-time shacks now being act, and originally a fund of $1,500,000 | by C. Marshall Finnan, superintend- | USfd for hospital wards that it did nog held its organization meeting yester- | in loans and grants under P. W. A.|ent of the National Capital Parks, ©YER g0 through them. | was authorized. Later a fund of $200,- | 000 was transferred from the Dis- | day afternoon and secured prelimi- | condition of permanent buildings on | trict’s loan and grant for the sewage | nar: information from spokesmen of A D€ site, the committee was taken into As an example of the deteriorated disposal plant and there is also & | the Federal and District Government | tN€ OPerating room of the hospital, District appropriation of $83,000 for | agencies represented. Each repre- | where, experts pointed out, the roof the equipment and furnishing of the | sentative gave his ideas on the general | '2S $8gged 31> inches since the build~ building. July 1. The 228 patients now at the Upshur street hospital are to be transferred to Glenn Dale. Thereafter the Dis- @ | trict will have no funds for operation Clude also the so-called “multiple of the old building unless an item is inserted in the pending 1938 budget. Hospital Annex Proposed. Welfare officials argue it would be wise to convert the old building into an obstetrical unit, since, they say, it would postpone the time when an ob- | Commission its general findings and | stetrical pavilion will have to be built as an addition to Gallinger. School officials last Fall advised the Commissioners & new Teachers' Col- With the First Federal Savings and | lege was badly needed. but the budget | framed by the Commissioners did not include funds for such purpose. The question of what use should be made of the Upshur street property has been discussed at several meetings of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. FIRE IN DWELLING READY FOR OCCUPANCY Family Had Planned to Move Into 909 Rittenhouse Street Residence Tomorrow. Fire broke out in an unoccupied three-story residence at 909 Ritten- house street today, just 24 hours be- fore the owner, C. 8. Thomas, planned to move in with his family of six. About 10 fire companies answered the alarm to the blaze, which swept the third floor and attic of the $10,500 home and caused damage estimated at $2,000. “We had planned to move in there tomorrow,” said Thomas, operator of a restaurant at 6211 Georgia avenue. His family now lives at 1218 S street southeast. Thomas said there were no gas or electric connections in the 10-room home, and he was unable to determine the cause of the fire. The adult sanatorium is | subject and told what his group has | expected to be opened sometime after | done thus far—if anything—about ob- | | taining a suitable auditorium here. | Problems of traffic control, street | widening, whether the auditorium shall be confined to just that or in- use"—embracing sports and other ac- | tivities—will be taken up by the ad- :visory group. The foremost consid- eration is the location. Finnan made it clear that the Ad- visory Committee has no powers be- vond reporting back to the Auditorium recommendations on a site. | The Auditorium Commission's re- port must be made, under the law | at this session of Congress. Others on Committee, Serving on the Advisory Commit- tee with Finnan are Louis A. Simon, supervising architect of the public | buildings branch, procurement divi- ‘sion. Treasury Department, who was | nominated by Rear Admiral Chris- tian J. Peoples, who heads the pro- curement unit; Capt. Hoel S. Bishop, jr, assistant to Col. Dan I. Sultan, Engineer Commissioner, representing | the Board of District Commissioners; | Dr. Charles Moore, chairman of the Fine Arts Commission, representing that body, and John Nolen, jr., direc- tor of planning of the National Capi- tal and Planning Commission, ap- pointed by Frederic A. Delano, chair- man of that group. Secretary Ickes is chairman of the | Auditorium Commission. Serving {with him are Senators Connally, | Democrat, of Texas, nd Austin, Re- publican, of Vermont and Represent- atives Lanham. Democrat, of Texas and J. Will Taylor, Republican, of Tennessee. e — James B. Alley to Speak. James B. Alley, general counsel of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., is scheduled to speak at noon tomorrow at a meeting of the Georgetown Law Hotel. He will discuss practice before the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion. Couple Separated 37 Years, Wife Here Sues for Divorce After living apart from her husband 37 years, Mrs. Minnie M. Baggett finally arrived at the conclusion there was little hope of reconciliation, so today she sued for divorce. Located at Georgetown Hospital, where she is employed, Mrs. Baggett denied she had any intention of re- marrying. “I am not going to turn crazy after all these years,” she remarked with & laugh, explaining she wants her divorce so her husband, John J. Baggett, will have no possible claim o two houses she owns and wants turned over to her son and daughter at her death. “After long mature considera- tion, I have comle to the conclusion that there is now little sr no hope of reconciliation,” she told the District Court through Attorney Jean M. Boardman. “Since 1900 I have supported my- self, as well as raised my children, without any assistance from the de- fendant, and I do not want any ali- mony now.” The couple was married here In July, 1891, when Mrs. Baggett, now 61, was only 14, she asserted. Five children were born of the union, but only two still are living. At the beginning of the century. Mrs. Baggett stated in her suit, her husband left their home and has con- tinuously lived apart from her since. 8he asks that the divorce be granted here on groungs of desertion or five years voluntarg<keparation. Mrs. Bag- gett lives at 4038 K street. | School Alumni Club at the Raleigh | ing was constructed in 1903. The re- inforcing steel in cinder concrete was said to have been “badly corroded.” | The “deep therapy X-ray machine” was declared by Admiral Rossiter to be | the oldest one in the Navy. On the whole Naval Hospital plant, the surgeon general told the commit- | tee, only sufficient money has been | spent to keep it going, until a decision could be reached about a new building. Accompanying the committee, in ad- dition to Admiral Rossiter, were Rear | Admiral C. S. Butler, commanding the medical center; Capt. George Thomas, commanding officer of the hospital; Capt. H. W. Smith, commanding officer of the Naval Medical School, and Comdr. William McAlpin, commanding the Dental School. The pending Vinson bill would in- volve a cost to the Government of $4,850,000 for a new medical center. It was explained, however, that the bill in reality is an amendment to the act of February 25, 1931, which authorized the appropriation of $3,200,000, so that the net increased cost to the Govern- ment for a new medical center would be $1,650,000. - MARRIED CLAUSE’ HEARING DELAYED Rules Committee Postpones Ao- tion on Repeal Until Next Week. After an executive session at which | House members only were admitted as witnesses today, the House Rules Committee postponed until next week its hearing on whether a rule will be permitted to give privileged status to the Ramspeck bill to repeal section | 213 of the old Economy act, otherwise | called “Married Persons Clause.” Chairman Ramspeck of the Civil Service Committee, which favorably reported the bill, told the committee there were two major reasons why this section should be repealed. One is that it prevents marriages among young persons in the civil service, and it also disturbs tenure. He pointed out that divorces and separations of husbands and wives in the Federal service have resulted from operation | of the law. | Representative Celler of New York, | who originally introduced the measure, also argued for repeal. He laid befors the committee a list of organizations that are supporting the reapeal legise | 1ation, including many men. | Representative Caroline O'Day, Dem= ocrat, at large of New York also ap- peared in protest against the existing provision and in support of Chairman Ramspeck and the Civil Service Com= mittee, BAND CONCERTS. By the Army Band in the garden at Walter Reed Hospital at 6:30 p.m today. Capt. Thomas F. Darcy leader; Karl Hubner, assistant. By the Solgiers’ Home Band at ths band stand §4.7 o'clock tonight. Johe 8. M. Zimmermann, leader.